Reversible necktie



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United States Patent Office 3,264,654 Patented August 9, 1966 3,264,654 REVERSIBLE NECK'IIE Leonard E. Woronowicz, 15 Nickel Ave., Sayreville, NJ., Jane Sudowski, 2 Lincoln St., South River, NJ., and Carl W. Woronowicz, 115 MacArthur Ave., Sayreville,

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Filed Get. 7, 1965, Ser. No. 493,777 2 Claims. (Cl. 2-146) This invention relates to neckties and more particularly to neckties of the four-in-hand type and the method of making the same.

A principal object of the present invention is to provide a four-in-hand necktie that is formed of a minimum number of parts.

Another object of the invention is to provide a four-inhand necktie that is reversible.

A further object is to provide a four-in-hand necktie with pleats in the sides thereof.

Yet another object of the invention is a novel method of making such a four-in-hand necktie.

For further comprehension of the invention and of the objects and advantages thereof, reference will be had to the following description and accompanying drawing and to the appended claims in which the various novel features ofthe invention are more particularly set forth.

In the accompanying drawings forming a material part of this disclosure:

FIGURE l is a perspective view of a four-in-hand necktie embodying the invention, the tie being shown folded upon itself.

FIG. 2 is an enlarged cross-sectional view taken on the line 2-2 of FIG. 1.

FIG. 3 is a top plan view of the blank forming the necktie, the blank being shown in inverted inside out condition.

FIG. 4 is a bottom plan view thereof.

FIG. 5 is a cross-sectional view taken on the line 5-5 of FIG. 3, on an enlarged scale.

FIG. 6 is a disassembled perspective view showing a step in the method of making the necktie.

FIG. 7 is a top plan view of the blank of FIG. 3 showing a step in the operation of turning the blank right side out to the condition as shown in the completed necktie of FIG. 1.

Referring in detail to the various views of the drawing, in FIG. 1 a necktie of the four-in-hand type embodying the invention is shown and designated generally at 10. The necktie 10 is formed of silk or other suitable necktie material and comprises a pair of substantially rectangular panels 12 and 13. Panel 12 forms the outside portion of the front of the completed tie, and the panel 13 forms the outside portion of the tail of the completed tie as viewed in FIG. 1. The panel 12 is shown decorated with an initial such as 8.

Another pair of panels 14 and 16 of substantially the same shape as panels 12 and 13, respectively, forms the front and tail portions, respectively, of the inside portion of the completed tie.

In assembling, the front and tail outside panels 12 and 13, respectively, are laid on the supporting table end to end, the adjacent ends being cut on the bias and the bias ends are sewed together by a row of stitching forming a joint 22. The other ends of the panels 12 and 14 are pointed as indicated at 20.

The panels 14 and 16 forming the front and tail portions, respectively, of the inside portion of the completed tie are similarly laid end to end, the adjacent ends being cut on the bias along the same angle, and the bias ends sewed together by a row of stitching, forming a joint 23 running on the same angle as the joint 22. The other end of panel 14 is pointed and the panel is similarly decorated with the initial 8.

The joined panels 12 and 13 forming the front end tail portions of the outside portion of the completed tie are then superimposed on the panels 14 and 16 forming the front and tail, respectively, of the inside portions of the completed tie with the long edges and end edges of the panels in alignment, and the joints 22 and 23 crisscrossed. The pointed ends of the front panels 12 and 14 are then sewed together by a row of stitching 25 and the square lcornered ends 30 of the tail panels 13 and 16 are sewed together by a row of stitching 31. The long ed-ges of the front panels 12 and 14, adjacent the joint 22, are sewed together by rows of stitching 24 and 44 close to the long edges of the panels. The rows of stitching then taper inwardly from the outer edges of the panels and extend along the long edges of the front panels 12 and 14, respectively, inwardly from the stitching 25 at the pointed ends 20 thereby forming a wide unattached margin 42 along the long edges and pointed end edges of the front panels 12 and 14.

The long aligned edges of the tail panels 13 and 16 adjacent the joint 23 are sewed together by rows of stitching 39 and 41 close to the long edges of the panels. The rows of stitching then taper inwardly from the outer edges of the panels and extend along the long edges of the tail panels 13 and 16 inwardly from the stitching 39 and 41 as indicated at 43 joining the row of stitching 31 at the square cornered ends thereby forming a wide unattached vmargin along the long edges and ends of the tail panels as indicated at 45. The stitches 24, 44, 39, 41 provide a narrow unattached margin 47 along the long edges of the panels adjacent the joints.

In accordance with the invention, the aligned edges of the tail panels 13 and 16 on the one side of the panels, adjacent the joint 22, are not sewed together but left unattached forming an opening between the panels 13 and 16 along the portion between the transverse lines marked a in FIGS. 3 and 4.

FIG. 3 illustrates the blank from which the completed tie 10 of FIG. 1 is made. The blank comprises the panels 12 and 13 ystitched to the panels 14 and 16 along the edges thereof with the panels turned inside out with the margins of the panels superimposed flatwise on each other as shown in FIG. 5. FIG. 4 illustrates the reverse side of the blank shown in FIG. 3. In order to form the completed tie 10, with the panels right side out, as shown in FIG. 1, one end of the blank, the square cornered end 30, for instance, is pushed inwardly through the tubular tail portion of the necktie constituted by the panels 13 and 16 until the square cornered end reaches the opening a in the side of the body 0f the tail portion, whereupon the square cornered end is manually grasped and the superimposed panels 13 and 16 are pulled outwardly through said opening a to the outside for the entire length thereof, such panels being shown only partly pulled outward in FIG. 7.

The pointed end 20 of the blank is then similarly pushed inwardly through the tubular front portion of the necktie constituted by panels 12 and 14 until the pointed end reaches the opening a in the side of the body of the blank, whereupon the pointed end 20 is manually grasped and the superimposed blanks 12 and 14 are pulled outwardly through the opening a to the outside for the entire length thereof, the panels 14 and 16 automatically assuming elongations of each other. By this operation, the wide margins 42 and 45 of the panels project inwardly thereby forming deep pleats 46 and 48, respectively in the tail and front portions of the completed necktie as shown in FIG. 1.

It will thus be seen that we have provided 'a necktie that is without any lining and that is. free of projections -on both surfaces thereof enabling both surfaces of the necktie to be used for display purposes, in a reversible manner.

While we have illustrated and described the preferred embodiments of our invention, it is to be understood that We do not ,limit ourselves to the precise construction herei in disclosed and that various changes and modifications may be made within the scope of theinvention as defined in the appended claims. What is claimed is:

1.'A necktie comprising an elongated fabric body coni stituted by a pair of panels in end-to-end relationrforming the` front and tail portions of the outside portion of the. body, a similar pair of panels in end-to-end relation forming the front and tail portions of the inside portion of the body, the adjacent ends of each pair` being cut` on the bias `and sewed together by rows of w jacentito andon both sides of the joints and on both sides of the body providing narrow pleats thereat midway the ends of the body, and rows of stitching joiningthe remainder of the long edges inwardly of the first-named close rows of stitching, .said second-named rows ofstitching being remote from the long edges providing relatively wider pleats than said narrow pleats, a portion of one of said edges adjacent the joints being left unstitched to provide means for turning the necktie inside-out.

2. A method of making a necktie consisting of the steps of superirnposing a pair of .fabric panels positioned in end to end relationship constituting the front and tail of the outside portion of the body of the necktie with their reverse surfaces uppermost, upon the top ofanother `pair 0r` similar shaped panels positioned in end-to-end relationship constituting the front andtailrof the inside portion f of the body ofv the necktierhaving their reverse surfaces lowermost, attaching Ithe positioned end edges of theV superimposed panels, yattaching thelong edges of the pan-k f els by rows of stitching midway the; ends `of the ,body and closely spaced from the edges, leaving a portion ofthe long edges along one side oi the body lunattachedto permit separation of said long edges, stitching the edges of theV remainder of the rbody and along the end edges remotely .spaced fromathe longedges of the panels, turn ing they panels inside out throughk the unattached vportion of saidone side to bring automatically the surfaces of the panels right side out, to provide' narrow pleats along the body midway its ends and Yto provide ywiderpleats than said narrow pleats along the sides of Vtheremainder of the body.

References Cited by ther Examiner l UNITED STATES EPATENTS 1,900,490 1i 3/,1933 Famous 2-'-l46 1,945,206 1/1934- Stephens V2-146 1,990,316 2/1935 Ansell et al. 2&146 2,385,726 9/1945 Pinsuti 2-146 2,413,398 12/1946 Whitman 2-'146 2,800,661 7/1957 Bergheim ,2-L-146 FOREIGN. PATENTS 193,904` 11/.1937 Switzerland.

n OTHER REFERENCES i Fashion Sewing yby the Bishop Method, page 81, published by il. B.'Lippincott Co., No. `62-16378.

JORDAN FRANKLIN, Primary Examiner.

PATRICK D.. LAWSON Examiner. 

1. A NECKTIE COMPRISING AN ELONGATED FABRIC BODY CONSTITUTED BY A PAIR OF PANELS IN END-TO-END RELATION FORMING THE FRONT AND TAIL PORTIONS OF THE OUTSIDE PORTION OF THE BODY, A SIMILAR PAIR OF PANELS IN END-TO-END RELATION FORMING THE FRONT AND TAIL PORTIONS OF THE INSIDE PORTION OF THE BODY, THE ADJACENT ENDS OF EACH PAIR BEING CUT ON THE BIAS AND SEWED TOGETHER BY ROWS OF STITCHING FORMING JOINTS THEREBETWEEN, SAID FRONT PORTION TAPERING FROM END TO END, SAID TAIL PORTION BEING SUBSTANTIALLY RECTANGULAR ROWS OF STITCHING CLOSE TO THE LONG EDGES OF THE PANELS JOINING SAID LONG EDGES ADJACENT TO AND ON BOTH SIDES OF THE JOINTS AND ON BOTH SIDES OF THE BODY PROVIDING NARROW PLEATS THEREAT MIDWAY THE ENDS OF THE BODY, AND ROWS OF STICHING JOINING THE REMAINDER OF THE LONG EDGES INWARDLY OF THE FIRST-NAMED CLOSE ROWS OF STITCHING, SAID SECOND-NAMED ROWS OF STITCHING BEING REMOTE FROM THE LONG EDGES PROVIDING RELATIVELY WIDER PLEATS THAN SAID NARROW PLEATS, A PORTION OF ONE OF SAID EDGES ADJACENT THE JOINTS BEING LEFT UNSTITCHED TO PROVIDE MEANS FOR TURNING THE NECKTIE INSIDE-OUT. 